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Jersey: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 157 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,071 in 2010.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,071 in 2010; #1,394 in 2025. About 77% of babies named Jersey in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,394 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2010, at #1,071.
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Jersey: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 157 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,071 in 2010 · most girls in one year: 232 (2010).
In 2025, 157 US girls were named Jersey, making it the 1,394th most common girls’ name of the year, up 233 places from #1,627 in 2024. That is 29 more than the 128 girls named Jersey in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,071, reached in 2010. That year also had the most girls given the name: 232. For comparison, it was #1,535 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 47 US boys were named Jersey, making it the 2,732nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 191 places from #2,541 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 53 boys named Jersey in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,335, reached in 2020. The most boys given the name in a single year was 60, in 2022. For comparison, it was #8,335 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jersey in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1948 with 6 babies. In all, 4,673 US babies have been given the name, 86% of them girls and 14% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,757 babies named Jersey.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,449 US girls were named Jersey; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 166. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,237 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jersey ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #508 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Jersie, Jerzey and Jerzee are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jersie (562), Jerzey (512), Jerzee (491), Jersi (424), Jersei (219), Jersee (171), Jerzei (36), Jersy (12).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Jersey in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 8 | #508 | #772 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #573 | #612 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #574 | — |
| Michigan | 13 | #616 | #956 |
| Missouri | 8 | #682 | #886 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #721 | #829 |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,077 | #760 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,106 | — |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,177 | #946 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,445 | — |
| Texas | 16 | #1,496 | #1,865 |
| California | 7 | #2,623 | #2,853 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 157 | #1,394 | 47 | #2,732 |
| 2024 | 128 | #1,627 | 53 | #2,541 |
| 2023 | 132 | #1,589 | 49 | #2,673 |
| 2022 | 143 | #1,516 | 60 | #2,362 |
| 2021 | 146 | #1,470 | 42 | #2,939 |
| 2020 | 166 | #1,330 | 58 | #2,335 |
| 2019 | 157 | #1,428 | 50 | #2,606 |
| 2018 | 142 | #1,535 | 28 | #3,832 |
| 2017 | 141 | #1,555 | 25 | #4,167 |
| 2016 | 137 | #1,607 | 10 | #7,851 |
| 2015 | 146 | #1,535 | 9 | #8,335 |
| 2014 | 137 | #1,580 | 11 | #7,268 |
| 2013 | 155 | #1,447 | 16 | #5,514 |
| 2012 | 134 | #1,616 | 8 | #9,247 |
| 2011 | 196 | #1,226 | 13 | #6,398 |
| 2010 | 232 | #1,071 | 10 | #7,837 |
| 2009 | 222 | #1,143 | 8 | #9,389 |
| 2008 | 223 | #1,154 | 6 | #11,742 |
| 2007 | 218 | #1,170 | 11 | #7,324 |
| 2006 | 225 | #1,114 | 14 | #5,924 |
| 2005 | 210 | #1,124 | 8 | #8,666 |
| 2004 | 163 | #1,312 | 19 | #4,505 |
| 2003 | 123 | #1,567 | 16 | #4,918 |
| 2002 | 110 | #1,674 | 14 | #5,255 |
| 2001 | 61 | #2,521 | 9 | #7,185 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,932 | 9 | #7,082 |
| 1999 | — | — | 5 | #10,676 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,144 | 6 | #8,997 |
| 1996 | — | — | 5 | #9,688 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,381 | 5 | #9,503 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,372 | — | — |
| 1992 | — | — | 7 | #7,013 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,376 | — | — |
| 1952 | — | — | 5 | #3,991 |
| 1948 | — | — | 6 | #3,485 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).